Your Connection to the Modern Sport Horse
TABLE OF CONTENTS JANUARY /FEBR UARY 2 0 1 4
FEATURES
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U.S. Breds Make their Mark Overseas by Charlene Strickland A jumper, eventer and dressage horse each bred in the U.S. are competing amongst the best.
Sparrow’s Nio Steals the Show by Amber Heintzberger This small Connemara/Thoroughbred wins big at the Fair Hill Int’l two star.
Beyond the Jumps by Katie Shultz Young Californian Ali Cornish breaks through to her difficult jumper and makes the ASPCA Maclay Finals.
Ambitious Breeders Aim for Grand Prix (and get there!) by Gigha Steinman Two women breed, raise, train and compete their homebreds to the top of dressage.
Nutragenomics by Maurine L. Webb Modern science is learning how specific foods affect gene expression in our sport horses.
Is the Euro-U.S. Gap Finally Closing? by Patti Schofler Six European ‘transplants’ share their views of breeding and selling sport horses.
The Standing MRI Stands Above the Rest by Laura McCormick A new and more accurate diagnostic tool for veterinarians.
SPECIAL American Trakehner Association SEC TION
BREED
55 Top-Tier Trakehners – International Event Horses Seacookie TSF and RSF Tobasco by Kim MacMillan
62 Worth Teir Weight in Gold – Trakehner Mounts for Young Riders by Kim MacMillan
66 What to do with a Retired Event Horse? by Tim Holekamp
DEPAR TMENTS & COLUMNS
14 Publisher’s Welcome 70 Barn Exam: The Grinch That Stole All The Fun. by Attorney Krysia Nelson 82 Conformation Corner Hindquarter Variations with Three Eventers. by Judy Wardrope
86 Sporthorse Snippet Unwanted Mares Given Second Chance at Wellington Quarantine. by Liz Cornell
89 Breeder’s Point of View: Can—and Should—Warmblood Breeders Specialize in Eventing? by Faith Fessenden
96 Index of Advertisers 97 Index of Breed Associations 98 Warmblood Whoas by Scot Tolman
6 January/February 2014 On the cover:
William Fox-Pitt and Seacookie TSF finish cross-country on the optimum time at the 2013 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI4*. The pair earned second place. KimMacMillan/MacMillan Photography
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